Creating simple icons

- [Instructor] Icons are a visual representationof something in an easily recognizable format.There are courses available on the lynda.comonline training library that can help youdig into this topic in some depthbecause it's something that's quite involved.But, essentially, you want to try and look for shapesin things and then give only as much form as is necessaryto represent them.Sometimes you might want to expand on what they are,such as with this kind of shadow thingwith this very flat design here, and sometimesyou won't want to be slightly more elaborate than that.

But essentially, you're trying to sum something upvery quickly.In the next movie, there's a challengebased on something that, while it is maybejust a little bit fun and a little bit silly,gives you an idea of some of the thingsthat you're asked to represent sometimes,which are beyond challenging.So have a look at that, and have a lookat how you might represent other thingsthat you would use inside of your infographicand how simple you can make them.

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2/8/2017

Infographics visualize your data and help to tell the story behind it. In this course, Tony Harmer shows how to design charts, graphs, and other infographic components in Adobe Illustrator. He shares some sources of data that you can use in production, and reveals five key components of a great information design. He then takes you through the various types of tools, charts, and functions that you can use in infographic production, before wrapping up on how you can actually output your final product.